Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 American drama film directed by Terry George. It was adapted from a screenplay written by both George and Keir Pearson. Based on real life events in Rwanda during the spring of 1994‚ the film stars Don Cheadle as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina‚ who attempts to rescue his fellow citizens from the ravages of the Rwandan Genocide. Sophie Okonedo and Nick Nolte also appear in principal roles. The film‚ which has been called an African Schindler’s List‚[3] documents Rusesabagina’s acts
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Running head: Hotel Rwanda 1 Hotel Rwanda Mary E. Gilmore Trine University Running head: Hotel Rwanda 2 Hotel Rwanda The movie I watched was Hotel Rwanda. This movie covered the genocide that occurred in Africa between April and July of 1994 when two tribes began fighting. These two tribes were the Hutu and the Tutsi. In just a little over three months‚ 800‚000 people were murdered. In the beginning of the movie‚ a
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Hotel Rwanda Hotel Rwanda is an amazing movie I think is very important to watch as a young adult. What is amazing about this film is that you can feel the victim’s pain and sorrows. The main character Paul (Don Cheadle) the manager of a luxury hotel also a Hutu‚ decides to risk his life for his Tutsi family and 1‚200 other Tutsi people by protecting them in his hotel now nicknamed Hotel Rwanda. The movie is based on actual events in Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali during the 1994 civil genocide
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president was not the only cause of this heinous genocide; there were many other underlying reasons as to why 1 million people lost their lives in 100 days without much being done to end it. First‚ there is a history of violence within the people of Rwanda. There was ethnic tension between the Hutus‚ who were the majority‚ and the Tutsis‚ who were the minority. Ironically‚ the Belgians considered the Tutsis to be superior over the Hutus. The Tutsis were given better
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Barriers in Film: Hotel Rwanda Intercultural communication is “a method of communication that aims to share information across different cultures and social groups” (http://www.uslegal.com/). The challenges that may occur during this type of communication stem from misunderstanding or lack of trust of people customs that are foreign to the listener. This can cause many barriers when trying to initiate intercultural communication. I will be discussing the film Hotel Rwanda while analyzing the different
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occurred they just attacked one another. As you can see the cultural and social differences between this group was another factor that led to the genocide in Rwanda. Although the Tutsis were the main group being attacked they both played a huge role in the genocide because the previous tensions between the two was showed. In the movie Hotel Rwanda‚ you can see how people were looking to kill the Tutsis. The army was after the Tutsis and if you were one you were going to be attacked. The last variable
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Hotel Rwanda‚ and Night comparison 2/6/13 The Holocaust was a tragic even to occur during WWI. Millions of innocent lives were taking only because they were of a different religion. Hitler was the dictator of Germany back in WWI and he thought of a “’perfect race.” This race did not include the Jewish population so he decided to get rid of them. Aside from the Holocaust the Rwandan Genocide was a genocidal mass slaughter that took place in 1994 in the East African state of Rwanda. The genocide
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Reflection Paper on Hotel Rwanda The 1990s marked a time of turbulence and unrest in Rwandan history. During April-July 1994‚ over 800‚000 Tutsi people were killed relentlessly at the hands of the Hutu militant group “Interhamwe‚” whose name translates to “Those Who Attack Together” (History.com‚ 2009). Based on true events‚ Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda follows the Rwandan Genocide through Paul Rusesabagina’s experiences‚ and from an interpersonal communications perspective‚ appreciates both the
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case the Hutus’ target were the Tutsis. They were of the same language. They practiced the same cultural traditions. They were of the same race. The only difference was power. And that’s what drove the genocide. When the Europeans helped colonize Rwanda‚ they gave the more powerful positions‚ like jobs in the government‚ to the Tutsis. One of the few high ranking spots that a Hutu obtained was President. Their reasoning was that the Tutsis looked more developed and looked of European descent. The
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Hutu The mention of the word “Hutu” immediately conjures up images of mass murder from the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The recent film Hotel Rwanda brought the horrible atrocities of that genocide to the public eye. However‚ it is not only in Rwanda that the Hutu have been involved in ethnic war. The country of Burundi‚ a neighbor to Rwanda‚ was the site of the first violence between the Hutu and the Tutsi. The Hutu people of Burundi have a rich culture and history that has been largely
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